bio.
Zara Manzur is a London-based visual artist. Her artistic practice is rooted in an exploration of identity and displacement, desire and loss. Working across moving image, sound, and photography, she traces the emotional and psychological tensions that emerge in transitory forms of existence – whether cultural, social, or metaphysical – and how these conditions can be expressed through a merging of the real and the imagined.
Her interests lie in weaving narratives that reflect the complexities of living between multiple worlds. Shaped as much by absence as by presence, her work draws on myth and the uncanny to explore how estrangement and duality are embedded within diasporic and hybrid identities. By blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary, her practice engages with both personal and collective histories, emphasising the liminal spaces where identity is continually fractured, undone, and remade.
Her interests lie in weaving narratives that reflect the complexities of living between multiple worlds. Shaped as much by absence as by presence, her work draws on myth and the uncanny to explore how estrangement and duality are embedded within diasporic and hybrid identities. By blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary, her practice engages with both personal and collective histories, emphasising the liminal spaces where identity is continually fractured, undone, and remade.
EDUCATION
2024 - 2025 MA Artists’ Film and Moving Image. Goldsmiths, University of London.
2017 - 2021 BA (hons) Fashion Communication and Promotion. Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
2024 - 2025 MA Artists’ Film and Moving Image. Goldsmiths, University of London.
2017 - 2021 BA (hons) Fashion Communication and Promotion. Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
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